In Episode 47, Bilal drops the most counterintuitive take of the season - he doesn't post for followers anymore. He posts for the machines. And once you hear why, you can't unhear it.

From there:

• Why the best insights on YouTube have 300 views — and how hedge funds are already exploiting this gap
• Babbel Labs: Mac minis + Claude agents watching YouTube 24/7 and selling the reports to Wall Street
• The free Codex hack generating unlimited GPT Image 2 outputs via parallel sub-agents
• Claude Cloud Environments — fire a task, close your laptop, check the PR preview an hour later
• The 5AM automation that reads Vercel logs, does root cause analysis, and files deduplicated bugs in Linear while you sleep
• Claude Ultracode + Workflows — what it looks like when agents start designing their own agent chains
• ElevenLabs x Hasbro, AI NIMBYism, and why Bernie Sanders' data center ban will hurt everyone except big tech
  
  

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 47 & Posting for the Machines
05:00 Hidden Alpha — Why the Best YouTube Insights Have 300 Views
12:00 Free Unlimited Images via Codex Sub-Agents
17:00 Claude Cloud Environments & Firing Tasks Without Babysitting
21:00 Ultracode + Workflows — Agents Orchestrating Agents 29:00 ElevenLabs x Hasbro, AI NIMBYism & the Data Center Ban

🔗 Links mentioned:

1. Claude Dynamic Workflows: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/workflows

2. ElevenLabs x Hasbro: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/hasbro

3. OpenAI Codex sites: https://developers.openai.com/codex/sites

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In Episode 46, Pierson and Bilal make the case most builders don't want to hear — stop chasing model releases and start building better systems.

Naval just said "waste tokens, save time." Microsoft burned their entire AI budget in 4 months. The cost conversation is changing fast — and this episode gets into why your processes matter more than your benchmarks.

From there:

• Claude AgentView — 10 parallel agents in one unified screen
• The unified API architecture Pierson rebuilt for Jellypod to serve both humans and agents
• Slash goals, HTML artifacts and front-loading agent context
• Claude Code Routines — Pierson's 5am health check that files its own bug reports in Linear
• Why the models are already far beyond what most people can extract from them
• The Suits CEO crossword analogy and what a real software factory actually looks like
  
  

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 46 & What We Built This Week
05:00 Grill Me Skill, Slash Goals & Front-Loading Agent Context
10:00 Claude AgentView — 10 Parallel Agents in One Screen 16:00 Stop Chasing Model Releases — Build Better Systems 22:00 Naval, Token Costs & Microsoft's AI Budget Crisis
28:00 Claude Code Routines & the 5AM Automated Bug Report

🔗 Links mentioned:

• Naval on wasting tokens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiyf-5jmYf0&t=311s
• Microsoft AI budget crisis: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XcjDn6uj-sE
  

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In Episode 45, Pierson and Bilal cover the week that changed a few things — Google I/O delivered a mixed bag, Karpathy walked into Anthropic, and OpenAI's model autonomously cracked an 80-year-old math problem nobody saw coming.

From there:

• Google Flash 3.5 came in 3x more expensive — and Omni didn't beat Cdance 2
• Why Gavin Baker's chip bet on Google losing cost efficiency played out exactly right
• SpaceX IPO, the Cursor deal & who files first — OpenAI or Anthropic
• Karpathy joins Anthropic — and what he's actually going there to do
• Meta and Cloudflare layoffs — the displacement wave is already here
• Corporations becoming governments, SpaceX militias & the return of local economies
  
  
  

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 45 & Google I/O First Reactions
07:00 Gavin Baker's Chip Bet & Amazon's Quiet Edge
10:00 SpaceX IPO, Cursor & the OpenAI vs Anthropic Race 15:00 Karpathy Joins Anthropic & the Erdős Math Breakthrough
22:00 AI Displacement, UBI & the Eric Schmidt Backlash 27:00 Corporations as Governments & the Future of Local Economies

🔗 Links mentioned:

• OpenAI Erdős Solution: https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/
• GitHub Hack: https://x.com/github/status/2056949168208552080
  
  

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In Episode 44, Pierson and Bilal get into something every AI builder eventually runs into — the model is smart, but it still breaks. And it's not always the model's fault.

They break down why agents fail not because they can't think, but because they have no eyes, arms, or legs — and what it actually takes to build systems where agents succeed. Pierson demos how he got agent browser to auto-authenticate behind a login wall using OAuth magic link flow, no password required. Bilal gets into Hyperframes, Remotion's parallelization edge, and the real cost of rendering long-form AI video at scale.

From there they cover:

• Why you can outsource your thinking to AI, but never your understanding — an Andrej Karpathy quote worth sitting with
• The Bun codebase port from Zig to Rust — a million lines of code, merged in days
• Token maxing culture and why burning more tokens doesn't mean building better
• Jack Dorsey's Block org structure and why tooling engineers are quietly the most valuable people in the room
• Bilal releases an AI-generated song — and the comments didn't know it wasn't human
• A guy who posted a real Monet and told the internet it was AI — and they believed it
• The Chinese solo creator who made an AI zombie film in 10 days for $400 and got a studio deal
  
  

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 44 & What We've Been Building This Week 06:00 Why AI Models Fail — And It's Not What You Think 12:00 Outsource Your Thinking, Not Your Understanding 19:00 Principal Engineers, Product Vision & What AI Can't Replace
27:00 Token Maxing, Tooling Teams & the Jack Dorsey Org Shift
33:00 Agent Auth, Playwright & Building Arms and Legs for AI
39:00 AI Art, the Monet Trick & Bilal's AI Song Nobody Knew Was AI

🔗 Links mentioned:

• Bilal's AI Song: https://x.com/deepwhitman/status/2055001909619274146
• Hyperframes: https://hyperframes.heygen.com/
• Bun Rewrite in Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488
  
  

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In Episode 43, Pierson and Bilal come fresh off the a16z Generative Media Video Hackathon - and they built some wild stuff.

Bilal went from a prompt to a full AI-generated podcast: custom avatars, Gemini TTS voices, lip-synced video, and live infographics pulled by deep research. All stitched together programmatically. Pierson built something different — an AI producer that joins your recording call as a guest, listens for a wake word, and pulls up images, search results, or visuals on a live canvas. Think: Jamie from Joe Rogan, but agentic.

From there they get into:

• GPT Realtime 2 — real-time transcription, translation, and a voice API that stays listening even when "asleep"
• The shift from AI writing code to AI owning features — and what engineering responsibility looks like in that world
• AI-generated anime breaking the last creative barrier humans thought they had
• XAI dissolving into SpaceX, Elon's Colossus One deal with Anthropic, and what it means for Claude Code limits
• Micro datacenters — Nvidia Blackwell chips mounted in your garage via SPAN's XFRA
  

Chapters:

00:00 Episode 43 & The a16z Generative Media Hackathon 04:00 Bilal's Build: Prompt to Full AI Podcast with Avatars 10:30 Pierson's Build: An AI Producer That Joins Your Call Live
20:00 GPT Realtime 2 & the Always-On AI Future
31:00 AI Anime, Creativity & the Last Human Bastion
37:00 XAI, Anthropic's Colossus Deal & Micro Data centers

🔗 Links mentioned:

• GPT Realtime API: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-realtime
• Sin Citium anime: https://x.com/Cont_animation/status/2051296715781619829
• SPAN Micro Datacenters x Nvidia: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414372626/en/SPAN-Announces-XFRA-a-Distributed-Data-Center-Solution-to-Close-the-Speed-to-Power-Gap-for-AI-Compute-Demand
  

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In Episode 42 of Creative Flux, Pierson and Bilal kick off episode 42 - the answer to the universe - and things get weird fast.

From there they cover:

- ElevenLabs launching a standalone music social app, why Suno accidentally became a social network first, and the impossible position Spotify is now in
- An AI podcast of Henrik Johansen and Martin Shkreli so realistic even Bilal got fooled
- Talkie 13B — a model trained exclusively on pre-1931 text by Alec Radford, and why it feels like actually talking to someone from the past
- Stripe Link going agent-first and Sam Altman hinting at something big around bring-your-own-tokens at Stripe Sessions


Chapters:

00:00 Hitchhiker's Guide, Audio Books & the Future of Multi-Voice AI Narration
08:10 ElevenLabs Music, Suno's Social Network & What Spotify Is Really Up Against
16:00 Henrik Johansen x Martin Shkreli — The AI Podcast That Fooled Everyone
22:00 Talkie 13B — A Language Model Trained Exclusively on Pre-1930 Text
36:30 Stripe Link for Agents, Sign In with ChatGPT & the Agent-First Platform Shift

🔗 Show Notes:
ElevenLabs Music: https://elevenlabs.io/music
Henrick Johanssen & Martin Shkreli: https://x.com/compliantvc/status/2049535715369775559?s=12
Talkie 13B (pre-1930 LLM): https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie
Stripe Link for Agents: https://stripe.com/blog/giving-agents-the-ability-to-pay

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In Episode 41 of Creative Flux, Pierson and Bilal cover one of the most chaotic weeks in AI yet — GPT 5.5 literally dropped 20 minutes before they hit record.

From there they cover:

Opus 4.7's regression Anthropic finally admitted to, what actually broke in Claude Code, and the $25B Amazon deal behind their compute crunch
The chip race — why Anthropic matching OpenAI on inferior hardware changes everything once they actually get Nvidia access
Tidepool (formerly Claw Connect) — an open source peer-to-peer protocol letting isolated Claude Code instances talk to each other. Three agents, no shared context, they built a subscription business
GPT Image 2's 300-point ELO jump and why it's an image agent, not just a model

🔗 Show Notes:
Andon Store: https://x.com/jlagerros/status/2046966793538048295 Tidepool - Agent to Agent Communication Protocol: https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/tidepool
Opus 4.7: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
GPT Image 2: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-image-2
GPT 5.5: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/ Hyperspace Pods: https://x.com/varun_mathur/status/2044882359565312468
Amit Jain from Luma AI on Unified Intelligence Systems (CS 153: Frontier Systems): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNrUuMQkl8

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In Episode 40, Pierson and Bilal get into something most people are completely overlooking.

Using Obsidian and local Markdown files to build a personal knowledge base that an LLM organizes, interlinks, and updates for you every single day. Your notes, your transcripts, your ideas — structured like your own Wikipedia, maintained by AI.

From there they cover:

• Why local-first AI models are winning the privacy argument
• How open source is quietly taking over
• What Opus 4.7 actually changes for developers
• Pierson's live demo of Claw Connect — a peer-to-peer protocol that lets AI agents talk directly to each other, across any model or harness
  

Two Claude Code instances. On screen. Having their own conversation. It gets wild.

Lots of rabbit holes. All worth it.

🔗 Links mentioned:

• Opus 4.7: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
• Claude Code Routines: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines
• Gemini TTS: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview
• Andrej Karpathy on LLM Knowledge Bases: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595
  
  Chapters:
  
  00:00 Episode 40 & Building a Personal Knowledge Base with Obsidian
  08:10 Daily AI Routines, Claude Code & Automating Your Workflow
  13:46 Local AI Models, Open Source & the Privacy Argument
  24:29 Opus 4.7, Energy, Intelligence & What's Next
  39:37 Introducing Claw Connect: Peer-to-Peer Agent Communication
  56:18 Two AI Agents Talking Live & the Future of Agent Collaboration
  

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